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October 12, 2010

Squirrels in my bathroom.

I finally did something about our downstairs bathroom. Remember my updated upstairs bathroom? Hard to top the ruffled shower curtain (that I still love dearly) but I found that, thanks to my patient waiting (ok, procrastination), Target has a pretty decent selection of shower curtains & clearance sales now (I wasn't into anything they had last spring.)

Way back then I bought the squirrel prints by Ryan Berkley on etsy and it's taken me this long to figure out frames and the rest of the colors I wanted to go with. I still would love your thoughts on what color I should paint in there. It's tiny, and also has no window, hence the not so great photos.

I'd love to paint this room and then finally move on to the playroom across the small hallway- we already have the paint for the playroom that I lovesomuch- it's going to be robin's egg blue and this awesome pink-orange spice color. So what could I paint the bathroom that would compliment that? And not be too loud or too much, you know?

Also, according to Ivy, that's her and Gray in the illustrations. Aren't they adorable?

When I look at that room I think of like really classic swedish colors. Really soft medium blues and yellows. So maybe you paint the room a blue that is somewhat lighter than the blue on the squirrels collar....maybe that would be too much...

super cute squirrels! and I love seeing design ideas put into practice by regular, real life people in real life homes as opposed to designers and magazine spreads. great for inspiration, but not so practial. I wouldn't have thought of the gray paint, but that sounds like a good idea to me. just don't go too dark or the room will seem smaller and cave like. I'd keep it pretty light.

Love the squirrels, still. Mine are in my office. It could be cool to paint the bathroom the sunny yellow that is the background color in those, so it looks like they're floating in their frames. Just a thought. It might be too much but it could work…

I am going to be the odd ball and say because it is such a small room and has no windows that grey will make it seem like a cave. I would go with a white or cream with the orange from the playroom as an accent.

oh, I love those prints- how fun! and really love the shower curtain. gray would look cool with the colors you have now. we used an awesome gray in our first house- called Cathedral Gray by Ralph Lauren. it's soft and light, grayish-greenish. I loved it- I'll probably use it again- someday. but, a real gray, just a really light shade, I bet would look really good. but...what do I know?! can't wait to see what you do!

I have to say a gray/blue color would be great. I would not go too dark since you mentioned it is small and has no windows. If you go too dark the bathroom will look even smaller. (This happened to me at our old house and had to paint it over). I think a gray color would look wonderful with your curtain and accents. Very pretty bathroom and the pictures are fun!

Okay, I am seriously loving those squirrels. Between those and Erin's (swonderful) kitty-cats-wearing-bows picture, I am going to be on the hunt for kitschy animals. My husband will think I've lost my mind.